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The Republic of Paappapapa is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.509 billion Paappapapans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Paappapapan economy, worth 112 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,769 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism. Crime is totally unknown. Paappapapa's national animal is the Nothing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paappapapa is ranked 288,952^nd in the world and 4,688^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -7.48 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.